Tuesday, June 2, 2020
G7 leaders reject Russia's return after Trump summit invite
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52885178
But Mr Trump's invitation to Mr Putin has drawn the ire of the UK and
Canada, whose leaders said on Sunday they would not support Russia's
readmission to the group.
Russia was expelled from the group - previously known as the G8 - in 2014 in response to its annexation of Crimea.
Episcopal Bishop Criticizes President Trump for Staging Visit to Church After Ordering Protesters Cleared
https://time.com/5846403/trump-visit-st-johns-church-criticism/
The bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Washington sharply criticized President Donald
Trump on Monday for staging a visit to the historic St. John’s Church
across from the White House, where he held up a Bible after authorities
had cleared the area of peaceful protesters.
The Rev. Mariann Budde, whose diocese St. John’s
belongs to, said in a statement that she was “outraged” by Trump’s visit
and noted that he didn’t pray while stopping by the church, a landmark
known for its regular visits from sitting presidents since the early
19th century.
“He took the symbols sacred to our tradition and
stood in front of a house of prayer in full expectation that would be a
celebratory moment,” Budde said in an interview after her statement on
Trump’s visit was posted to the diocese’s Twitter account.
Monday, June 1, 2020
How Do You Kneel on a Neck for Nine Minutes?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/george-floyd-kneeling/612409/
I don’t see how anyone could remain in that position unless he was, at best, totally indifferent to the person’s survival.
Police bust sex trafficking ring that brought women to Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-bust-sex-trafficking-ring-that-brought-women-to-israel/
Police have busted a suspected sex trafficking ring that allegedly
brought women from abroad to Israel for prostitution, arresting eight
suspects Monday morning including a female former Israeli athlete.
The crime ring made contact with the women via Russian-language
online advertisements before bringing them to Israel to work as
prostitutes, police said in a statement. In the country, it allegedly
arranged their living situations and ferried them from customer to
customer at a number of “discreet houses” masquerading as massage
services.
feminist poison in Orthodox world
When an issue repeatedly comes up in a very short time span that usually indicates it is very serious
I am dealing with couples who one had a loving relationship which has turned to raw hatred.
The issue is that the wife views their children as exclusively hers and insists on eradicating any and all relationship between the father and children. Thus he deserves no respect or love because she is the real parent he is only the sperm donor. the real problem is this view is held so strongly and deeply it is totally immune to psychological legal or halachic arguments. Whatever contact the wife allows is viewed by her as proof that she is a tzadekes. Totally destroying the well being of the children and ex husband
Yale Epidemiologist: Hydroxychloroquine Should Be Used As Standard COVID-19 Treatment Despite Being Potentially Harmful
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/25885/20200601/yale-epidemiologist-hydroxychloroquine-used-standard-covid-19-treatment-despite-being-harmful.htm
Basically says why not use it until it has been proven either worthless or harmful since it is better to do something than nothing. Hardly a strong endorsement. I think we should wear garlic around our necks and smell bleach several times a day until it can be shown to be worthless or harmful.
Dr. Harvey Risch, an epidemiologist at Yale, disputes that
hydroxychloroquine should be "widely available and promoted for
prescription by physicians". In an article
published by Oxford University Press, aided by the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health, he explains why it is essential that
scientists shouldn't only "stand by" while knowing the drug's efficacy
and potential.
All treatments have costs and benefits. In an ideal world, randomized double-blinded controlled clinical trials establish evidence for the relative degree of benefit, and if large enough, for estimatesof the frequenciesof adverse events. These trials take time to conduct: to get formal approval, to get funding, to enroll enough eligible patients, to wait for the outcomes to occur, and to analyze the data. In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are presently averaging about 10,000 deaths per weekin the US, under moderately strong isolation policies that have put more than 36million people out of work. Results of currently ongoing or planned randomized trials for use of a number of outpatient medications are many weeks or months off, and there are no guarantees that the results for these agents, even if statistically significant, will show sufficient magnitudes of effectiveness to be useful clinically. We are rapidly reaching a breaking point in the ability to maintain the status quo;states have begun the process of lifting their restrictions, and we thus need to evaluate what evidence we do have for promising outpatient treatments.Review of Evidence Based on laboratory and other preliminary evidenceto-date,among many others, two candidate medication regimens have been widely discussed for outpatient treatment: remdesivir(Gilead Sciences, Inc., Foster City, California),and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) plus azithromycin (AZ). Remdesivir has been studied extensively in laboratory work and in animals (8) and for other viral diseases and has good biological properties,suggesting utilityfor SARS-CoV-2infection. In a study of remdesivir compassionate use in 53 hospitalized patients with severe disease (9), 13% died, which appear slower than what might have been expectedwithout treatment, though greater than the deaths in the placebo arm of the Adaptive COVID-19
In this context, we cannot afford the luxury of perfect knowledge and must evaluate, now and on an ongoing basis, the evidence for benefit and risk of these medications(23). Available evidence of efficacy of HCQ+AZhas been repeatedly described in the media as “anecdotal,” but most certainly is not. The evidence is not perfect either.
There is a small chance that it may not work. But the urgency demands that we at least start to take that risk and evaluate what happens, and if our situation does not improve we can stop it, but we will know that we did everything that we could instead of sitting by and letting hundreds of thousands die because we did not have the courage to act according to our rational calculations
Sunday, May 31, 2020
'Enough already': Romney blasts Trump for pushing conspiracy theory about Joe Scarborough
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/27/politics/mitt-romney-joe-scarborough-trump-conspiracy-theory/index.html
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah on Wednesday blasted President Donald Trump for repeatedly pushing a decades-old conspiracy theory about MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, calling the attacks "vile" and "baseless."
Romney has been a frequent critic of
Trump, and his tweet on Wednesday appears to make him the second member
of his party in Congress to publicly call out the President over his
support of the conspiracy theory. Earlier this week, Republican Rep.
Adam Kinzinger of Illinois urged the President in a tweet to stop touting the theory, writing, "It will destroy us."
Trump says right-wing voices are being censored. The data says something else
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/28/media/trump-social-media-conservative-censorship/index.html
President Donald Trump has angrily complained this week about social media companies, repeatedly accusing them of censoring conservative voices and going as far as to sign an executive order Thursday seeking to limit their power.
But
data from Facebook, the world's largest social media company, pours
cold water on the assertion that conservative voices are being silenced.
In
fact, according to CrowdTangle, a data-analytics firm owned by
Facebook, content from conservative news organizations dominates
Facebook and often outperforms content from straightforward news
organizations.
Donald Trump Jr.’s Baseless Attack Calling Biden a Pedophile Is a Preview of the Dirty Campaign Ahead
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/trump-son-baseless-attack-biden-preview-dirty-campaign.html
He was joking, but not really. That seems to be the message from Donald Trump Jr. after he posted a meme on his Instagram account
that called former Vice President Joe Biden a pedophile. The meme that
the president’s eldest son posted for his 2.8 million followers includes
a picture of Biden saying, “See you later, alligator” while an
alligator below replies, “In a while, pedophile.”
Don Jr. and Eric Preview Trump Camp’s Ugly Biden Attacks
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/trump-camps-biden-messaging-is-about-to-get-even-uglier.html
The president has never been kind to his opponents of any political stripe,
and his Democratic challenger in 2020 has not received a pass. In the
past year or so, Trump has claimed Joe Biden was only good at his job
“because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama’s ass,” called him the
“weakest mentally,” and identified the former vice-president and his son
Hunter with one of his favorite barbs.
Donald Trump Jr.’s latest Joe Biden “joke” reflects a proven strategy for mainstreaming extreme ideas
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/17/21261636/joe-biden-creepy-joe-meme-donald-trump-jr
President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., tweeted and Instagrammed a reference to the widespread “Creepy Joe” meme on Friday — one labeling former Vice President Joe Biden a pedophile.
The meme, which has been circulating online in right-wing
meme forums as well as communities and hashtags devoted to the “Creepy
Joe” meme, highlights the fact a number of women have said the
presumptive nominee touched them inappropriately. It depicts Biden
saying, “See you later alligator,” with an alligator responding, “In a
while, pedophile.” On Instagram, Trump Jr. initially framed the meme as a joke, and later repeated the claim on Twitter.
Women are spiritually inferior to men - Netziv
Netziv (Bereishis 1:27)In the image of G-d All of nature
in its entirety was included with in him. From the moment that it occurred in
thought and speech that Nature should be that way G-d was called Elokim i.e the
G-d of Nature. And since all Nature was included in man he was thus in the
image of Elokim. But this is only true for the elevated man as he was before
the Sin. And afterwards male and female
He created them This verse is not saying
that gender was different in man from the other species so this teaches us that they were in fact two creatures as I
will explain later and since the male of the human species is not comparable to
the female as it states in Koheles(7:28)
I found one man out of a thousand but
not among woman. In other words the elevated man is like one who is in the
image of G-d and that is one man out of a thousand. In contrast amongst women, they are like the second man who has the name of man but not the spiritual
level
Number of coronavirus deaths in Sweden is highest per capita in the world
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/281047
Following Sweden's decision not to institute a lockdown to control
the spread of coronavirus, the country's death rate is now one of the
highest in the world.
Over the past week, Sweden has seen 5.59 deaths per million people,
significantly higher than the global average of 0.49 deaths per million
people.
Earlier this week, Sweden's state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell admitted that his country is in a "terrible situation."
In a sad week for America, Trump has fled from his duty
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/30/opinions/trump-twitter-minneapolis-george-floyd-gergen/index.html
But other than a brief tweet in
the midst of another storm, Trump remained silent on the most sensitive
issue of his presidency: the pandemic that is killing so many older Americans and people of color
living near the edge. Understandably, with the rash of other news, the
press is moving on. But we should pause for one more moment to recognize
how sad and sharp a departure his silence is from past traditions of
the presidency.
Trump Lashes Out as His Election Prospects Darken
https://time.com/5843451/trump-lashes-out-as-his-election-prospects-darken/
Some prominent Republicans say the President has crossed the line
with the attacks he’s lobbed in recent days. “We’re in the middle of a
pandemic, he’s the Commander-in-Chief of this nation, and it’s causing
great pain to the family of the young woman who died, so I would urge
him to stop it,” Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the chair of the House
Republican Conference, said May 27, referencing Trump’s repeated
implication that Scarborough had been involved in the death of staff
member Lori Klausutis in 2001. (Police ruled the death an accident; at
the time, Scarborough was hundreds of miles away.) Mitt Romney, the only
Republican senator to vote to convict Trump on abuse of power during
his impeachment trial, called Trump’s suggestions about Scarborough’s
involvement in Klausutis’s death “vile” and “baseless.” “Enough
already,” the senator from Utah tweeted.
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Judge Napolitano says officer charged in Floyd's death should be charged with second-degree murder
https://www.foxnews.com/media/judge-napolitano-says-officer-charged-in-gorge-floyds-death-should-be-charged-with-second-degree-murder
Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano reacted Friday to Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin being charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter over the death of George Floyd as riots and protests continue in the city.
"Third-degree
murder is the same thing as manslaughter, which is a reckless
indifference to human life. Probable cause statement shows that the knee
was on the neck for more than four minutes, that the other officers
said to him, 'Do you think you should lay off of him?' That one of the
officers took his pulse and there was no pulse and Officer Chauvin kept
his knee on the neck even after there was no pulse," Napolitano said on "Bill Hemmer Reports."
"Now, that behavior to me is an intent to kill, which is second-degree
murder. What's the difference? One has 20 five years in jail as a max.
The other has 40 years in jail as a max."
Judge Pirro says 'facts are clear,' Minnesota officer 'does not deserve to be free'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/judge-jeanine-pirro-officer-arrest-george-floyd
Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro said on Friday that there are “clear facts” showing that the police officer who killed George Floyd needs to be arrested and charged with murder under Minnesota law.
“What
you have is a police officer with a record of [a] series of complaints
over the 19 years that he’s been a police officer who ended up snuffing
the life out of an African-American over an alleged counterfeit $20 bill
that he was using to buy food for his family,” the host of "Justice with Jeanine" told “Fox & Friends.”
“I want to know what were those police officers doing as George Floyd
was begging, saying he couldn’t breathe, saying ‘please please,’
begging them and then crying for his mama?" Pirro asked. "I mean, break
your heart. This man who put his knee on the neck of George Floyd does
not deserve to be free in this country.”
Hours after the interview aired, Chauvin was arrested.
The Trump-Twitter fight ropes in the rest of Silicon Valley
The deepening feud between the
president and his go-to social media platform is forcing companies like
Facebook and Google to gird for a lobbying battle to defend the legal
protections that underpin their lucrative business models, sooner and
much more publicly than they had originally expected. Those preparations
accelerated this week, even as Facebook made it clear to Trump that it
doesn't share Twitter's view of how online platforms should handle
political speech.
Supreme Court rejects request from California church to block restrictions on in-person services
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/30/politics/supreme-court-california-church-coronavirus/index.html
A 5-4 Supreme Court rejected a request from a church in California to block limitations on the number of people who could attend religious services during the coronavirus pandemic.
Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the liberals on the bench, and wrote separately to explain his vote.
"Although
California's guidelines place restrictions on places of worship, those
restrictions appear consistent with the Free Exercise Clause of the
First Amendment," Roberts wrote.
Science Can't Tell Us What to Do- neither can politicians
http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/2050/science-cant-tell-us-what-to-do
Issues such as to what degree of infringements on personal privacy are justified in pursuit of public health, or to what extent individuals should be allowed to accept risk upon themselves — e.g., grandparents who want to see their grandchildren — are ultimately value questions. And on those, scientists have nothing more to say than you and I.
Issues such as to what degree of infringements on personal privacy are justified in pursuit of public health, or to what extent individuals should be allowed to accept risk upon themselves — e.g., grandparents who want to see their grandchildren — are ultimately value questions. And on those, scientists have nothing more to say than you and I.
Rosenblum is a Republican apologist ignoring well known Torah values. My view might not be superior to Trump - however the gedolim have seen fit to ignore
Rosenblum's polemics and say life is the main concern
Rosenblum's polemics and say life is the main concern
ON the other hand there is no reason to assume the wisdom of Trump and his fellow wrecking crew the supposedly pro life Republicans are willing to ignore medical advice they hold that the loss of some old people or lower class young people is justified for the sake of the economy. Trump calls those he thinks are expendable "warriors" Naturally he does not include himself or his family in this group
A week of distractions from Trump shows a leader in crisis
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/30/politics/trump-distractions-pandemic-racial-unrest/index.html
Trump's efforts to change the subject at
moments of peril have been a hallmark of his entire career in politics
and, when successful, a constant source of frustration for his rivals.
But rarely have they appeared more blatant or off-key than now, as a
battered nation emerges from a pandemic that has left more than 100,000
dead and as racial unrest brews again.
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Fact check: On Memorial Day, Trump falsely attacks Democratic congressman who is a Marine Corps veteran
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/26/politics/fact-check-trump-conor-lamb-pelosi/index.html
Trump claimed that Lamb --
whose first and last name he misspelled as "Connor Lamm" -- is a
"puppet" for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump continued: "He said he
would NOT vote for her for Speaker, and did."
Facts First: Lamb,
elected in a special election in March 2018 and then again in the
general election in November 2018, kept his promise not to vote for
Pelosi as speaker. Lamb voted for Rep. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts.
Police: Former student at Ner Israel Rabbinical College tries to run over staff member, others
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/police-former-student-at-ner-israel-rabbinical-college-tries-to-run-over-staff-member-others/32672425
The suspect was identified as Manooel Yerooshalmy, 33, of Baltimore. He
is charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder, three
counts of attempted second-degree murder and various other charges.
Seattle Judge Tosses Suit That Tried to Gag Fox News Commentary
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/fox-news-lawsuit-washlite-dismissed-1234617658/
In an eight-page document, however, Superior Court Judge Brian McDonald said WASHLITE had failed to establish a case, noting that its “assertions do not hold up to scrutiny.” He added: “WASHLITE’s professed goal in this lawsuit – to ensure that the public receives accurate information about the coronavirus and COVID-19 – is laudable.” But its argument of using a consumer protection act, he said, “runs afoul of the protections of the First Amendment.”
A Seattle judge has dismissed a lawsuit from a little-known advocacy organization that hoped to bar Fox News Channel from transmitting its popular primetime opinion programs to its large cable-news audience.
WASHLITE argued in its initial filing that Fox News was subject to
established protections for consumers against false information and put
forth the notion that deceptive or unfair acts may be enjoined under
statutes in Washington state.
In an eight-page document, however, Superior Court Judge Brian McDonald said WASHLITE had failed to establish a case, noting that its “assertions do not hold up to scrutiny.” He added: “WASHLITE’s professed goal in this lawsuit – to ensure that the public receives accurate information about the coronavirus and COVID-19 – is laudable.” But its argument of using a consumer protection act, he said, “runs afoul of the protections of the First Amendment.”
Fox News During the Coronavirus Pandemic Is Awful Even by Fox News Standards
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/fox-news-is-denying-coronavirus-and-risking-viewers-lives.html
Since the novel coronavirus first came to America, many marquee Fox
personalities have been rushing to diminish its seriousness while
simultaneously blaming everyone but the Trump administration for the
virus’s rapid spread across the United States (which, of course, is not
that serious). On Wednesday, as he has done all week, Hannity argued
that the novel coronavirus was less of a threat than the seasonal flu.
“There have been 1,200 cases of corona versus 34 million cases of the
flu,” Hannity said. “As the senior director at Johns Hopkins pointed out
this week, the flu is having much more of an impact than coronavirus.
These are facts.” On her own program Wednesday night, Laura Ingraham
echoed Hannity’s skepticism. “Where the risk is minimal, the business of
America must go on,” she said. “FDR told us that the only thing we have
to fear is fear itself.” Earlier this week, on the Fox Business
Network, host Trish Regan informed her viewers that the “chorus of hate
being leveled at the president is nearing a crescendo as Democrats blame
him—and only him—for a virus that originated halfway around the world.
This is yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
On this matter, as on so many other things, Regan, Ingraham, and
Hannity are dead wrong. First of all, it beggars belief to say that the
Trump administration has done an exemplary job of containing the spread
of the coronavirus. “This is an unmitigated disaster that the
administration has brought upon the population, and I don’t say this
lightly,” Harvard Global Health Institute director Ashish Jha told Bloomberg; on Twitter, Georgetown University global health law professor Lawrence Gostin called
Trump’s temporary European travel ban “incoherent.” Second, in point of
fact, COVID-19 isn’t just a more mild version of the flu. It’s
something different, and it is incredibly dangerous for the elderly and
immunocompromised. Fox News is risking its aged viewers’ lives by
downplaying the risks of COVID-19. The network’s coverage here is
grossly irresponsible.
More False Mail-In Ballot Claims from Trump
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/more-false-mail-in-ballot-claims-from-trump/
California will send every registered voter in the state a mail-in
ballot for the November general election. But President Donald Trump
falsely said, on Twitter and at the White House, that the ballots would
go to “anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they
got there” and “people that aren’t citizens.”
The president went on to make the unsupported claim that mail-in voting would be “substantially fraudulent.” Experts have told us that voter fraud via mail-in ballots is rare, though more common than in-person voting fraud — another topic Trump has repeatedly been wrong about.
Five states already conduct elections primarily by mail-in vote: Utah, Colorado, Hawaii, Washington and Oregon. All of them will send registered voters a mail-in ballot in advance of the election, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures
and the individual state election materials. In Utah, all but two
counties automatically sent ballots to registered voters in the 2018 elections, and this year’s June 30 primary
will be conducted primarily by mail, due to the coronavirus pandemic,
with no regular polling places available in all but one county.
Last week, Trump made the false claim
on Twitter that Michigan was “illegally” sending “absentee ballots to
7.7 million people” for this year’s primary and general elections. The
state said it will send absentee ballot applications to all registered voters. Trump later corrected his tweet on that point but still claimed it was against the law. However, Iowa, Georgia, Nebraska and West Virginia also have sent absentee applications.
He further claimed Nevada was sending “illegal vote by mail ballots.” The Republican secretary of state in Nevada announced: “All active registered voters in Nevada will be mailed an absentee ballot for the primary election,” and her office noted that a federal judge had ruled this was a lawful exercise of her authority.
Fact-checking Trump's recent claims that mail-in voting is rife with fraud
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/27/app-politics-section/donald-trump-mail-in-voter-fraud-fact-check/index.html
Specifically, and without
evidence, Trump has claimed that mail-in voting is particularly
susceptible to fraud, casting it as a lawless, unregulated exercise
where ballots are stolen from mailboxes, voter signatures are routinely
forged and even the ballots themselves are illegally printed.
On Tuesday, Trump tweeted
a flurry of accusations, including falsely claiming that California was
sending ballots to undocumented immigrants and was prepared to let
"anyone," regardless of residency, vote by mail.
Jack Dorsey says Trump fact-check does not make Twitter 'arbiter of truth'
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/28/media/jack-dorsey-donald-trump-twitter/index.html
In his tweets Wednesday, Dorsey also
said he takes ultimate responsibility for decisions made by Twitter and
asked people to "leave our employees out of this." Earlier Wednesday,
Trump's two elder sons and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway
pointed to tweets made by Twitter employee Yoel Roth in 2016 and 2017 as evidence of Twitter's alleged bias against the president.
There is someone ultimately accountable
for our actions as a company, and that's me," Dorsey said. "Please leave
our employees out of this. We'll continue to point out incorrect or
disputed information about elections globally. And we will admit to and
own any mistakes we make."
Twitter
also defended Roth earlier Wednesday, saying that, "no one person at
Twitter is responsible for our policies or enforcement actions, and it's
unfortunate to see individual employees targeted for company
decisions."
Dorsey, according to a
Twitter spokesperson, did not make the decision to label Trump's tweets.
A Twitter spokesperson said the tweets contained "potentially
misleading information about voting processes" and had been "labeled to
provide additional context."
Questions raised over hydroxychloroquine study which caused WHO to halt trials for Covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/28/questions-raised-over-hydroxychloroquine-study-which-caused-who-to-halt-trials-for-covid-19
He stressed that even if the paper proved to be problematic, it did
not mean hydroxychloroquine was safe or effective in treating Covid-19.
No strong studies to date have shown the drug is effective.
Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have potentially severe and even deadly side effects if used inappropriately,
including heart failure and toxicity. Other studies have found the drug
is associated with higher mortality when given to severely unwell
Covid-19 patients.
Serious concerns have being raised
by bioethicists, clinicians and scientists that scientific rigour and
peer review is falling by the wayside in the race to understand how the
virus spreads and why it has such a devastating impact on some people.
From 'We've shut it down' to 100,000 US dead
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52775216
One of Donald Trump's first acts when he moved into the Oval Office
in 2017, was to restore to a central position the bust of Winston
Churchill that Barack Obama had moved out in favour of a bronze of
Martin Luther King Jr.
And in this fight against coronavirus, Donald Trump does see himself
as a war leader; the property tycoon who could work a shovel on a
Manhattan building site was also going to be shown to be a man of
destiny - the untried field-marshal, with a baton in his knapsack ready
to command the troops to get the job done. But also keeping the home
fires burning, and lifting the morale of a frightened nation. It has all
been far more jagged than that.
Donald Trump is not imbued with the gift of soaring Churchillian
rhetoric; there have been no "we shall fight them on the beaches"
moments. Nor has he conjured the Rooseveltian calm when delivering one
of his fireside chats. There have been days of infamy, but they have
been invariably generated by things that the president has said, rather
than what has been done to the United States.
And anyway, for a
self-styled war leader he must at least face the charge of ignoring the
warnings about the enemy he was confronting in the early stages,
appearing more Neville Chamberlain than Winston Churchill.
Number of abortions among IDF soldiers rises
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/267701
The Torat Halehima religious pro-IDF organization responded: "The IDF
Chief of Staff's Adivsory Unit for Gender Issues' concept of mixed
gender units is collapsing, and the ones paying the price are the IDF
and the female soldiers."
"The difficult situations occurring recently in mixed troops, and the
increase in the number of abortions in all IDF units, testify to the
negative culture being created in the IDF as a result of the decision to
create coed units.
"We will demand a realistic change to this negative decision, which
was advanced by radical feminist organizations who do not prioritize the
good of the IDF. When the IDF worries about victory instead of
equality, 'abortions' will go back to referring to the abortion of enemy
operations.'"
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
A Presidential Smear
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-presidential-smear-11590535397
Trump imitates the Steele dossier in attacks on Joe Scarborough.
Donald Trump sometimes traffics in conspiracy theories—recall his
innuendo in 2016 about Ted Cruz’s father and the JFK assassination—but
his latest accusation against MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is ugly even
for him. Mr. Trump has been tweeting the suggestion that Mr. Scarborough
might have had something to do with the death in 2001 of a young woman
who worked in his Florida office when Mr. Scarborough was a GOP
Congressman.
'Mr. Trump is debasing his office': The famously conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board slammed the president for pushing a Joe Scarborough murder conspiracy theory
https://www.businessinsider.com/wsj-editorial-board-slams-trump-joe-scarborough-tweets-2020-5
The Wall Street Journal's editorial board has come out against President Donald Trump for pushing a conspiracy theory about the MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough.
In
response to Scarborough's criticism of Trump's handling of the
coronavirus outbreak in recent weeks, Trump has revived questions about
whether the "Morning Joe" cohost was involved in the 2001 death of one
of his congressional aides.
The Journal's editorial board publicly condemned Trump for pushing
the conspiracy theory in an editorial Tuesday, saying his comments about
Scarborough were "nasty stuff" and "ugly even for him."
"Mr.
Trump always hits back at critics, and Mr. Scarborough has called the
President mentally ill, among other things. But suggesting that the
talk-show host is implicated in the woman's death isn't political
hardball. It's a smear," the board wrote.
The editorial board added that it didn't expect Trump to stop his
tirade against Scarborough but wanted to make it clear that "Mr. Trump
is debasing his office" and "hurting the country in doing so."
The hidden risk in Donald Trump’s tweets
https://nypost.com/2020/05/26/the-hidden-risk-in-donald-trumps-tweets/
We suppose there are some Trump followers who enjoy this. The libs
say horrible things about you, go ahead and say terrible things about
them! There is a difference, though, between mocking someone’s ratings
and hurting an innocent family with the memories of their tragic
daughter because of a petty feud.
A much larger portion of Trump’s support, we’d wager, are people who
like his policies and brush off his personality — or try to.
The brashness comes in handy when you make a call like finally moving
the US Embassy to Jerusalem — being told “you can’t do that” means
little to Trump. So he says some outrageous things on Twitter, who
cares?
But is that really the president you want to be, sir? The president
for whom people disregard half or even most of what you say as
irrelevant?
Tuesday was a good day — the economy showed signs of life, lockdowns
were ending. You gave the press something else to talk about, and trust
us, you did not look like the bigger man. You might be making your
enemies angry, but you’re making allies tune out.
There’s something worse than being hated. It’s being ignored.
‘Ugly Even for Him’: Trump’s Media Allies Recoil at His Smear of MSNBC Host
The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and Washington Examiner chastised
the president for his unfounded attacks on Joe Scarborough.
The Auschwitz doctor who couldn't 'do no harm'
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200526-dr-gisella-perl-the-auschwitz-doctor-who-saved-lives
She would hide any pregnant women she found and, if necessary,
interrupt her pregnancy, or quietly deliver and then kill, the newborn
child.
It was the only way the women would have even the slightest chance of
survival – and someday, she hoped, would have the chance to have a
child in freedom.
Appeals court ruling suggests little legal traction for Trump's anti-Twitter campaign
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/27/trump-twitter-court-ruling-284632
The
appeals court judges said that despite the companies’ power, they cannot
violate the First Amendment because it only regulates governments, not
the private sector.
“Freedom
Watch’s First Amendment claim fails because it does not adequately
allege that the Platforms can violate the First Amendment. In general,
the First Amendment ‘prohibits only governmental abridgment of speech,'” the court said.
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